Study on Menstrual Hygiene Practices among Rural Adolescent Girls in Hisar district
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2019
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CCSHAU
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Adolescence in girls has been recognized as a special period in their life cycle that requires specific and special attention. This period is marked with the onset of menarche. Menstruation is a phenomenon unique to all females. This study was undertaken with the aims to assess the knowledge of adolescent‘s girls living in rural area regarding menstruation and also to study their misconception and experience and menstrual hygienic practice regarding menstruation. The present study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state. From Hisar district block II was selected randomly and from block II two villages viz. Gawar and Burak were selected randomly. 50 females from each villages were selected randomly. Thus, making a total of 100 respondents. A set of independent variables and dependent variables were selected for the study. In this study majority of the respondents respondents attained the menarche between 13-16 years, in class VIII followed by IX with mothers‘ as a home-maker, elder sibling as a sister, both of them helped the respondents to become more aware about the menarche as both were the major source of information for them. From the findings of the present study, it can be observed that the adolescent girls had proper awareness about menstruation before menarche (75.0%) and duration of menstruation (87.0%). Regarding experience of respondents about menstruation it was found majority knew about so many aspects of menstruation but some misconceptions still exist in the respondents and instead of thinking menstruation as normal process in adolescent girls, they thought (67.0%) it as an impure blood getting released from the body. Majority of the respondents (44.0%) felt upset during their first menstruation and had (60.0%) negative reaction in general. Majority of the respondent faced the problem of (70.0%) stomach pain, (67.0%) backache, (47.0%) irritation and (38.0%) breast soreness before the menstruation, fear (93.0%), lose confidence(88.0%), lazyness (63.0%), and irritation (47.0%) during the menstruation and cent per cent of the respondents felt increased confidence , activeness and good sleep post menstrual feelings. Majority of the respondents were following good menstrual hygienic practices. Use of absorbent was found to be significantly associated with age (χ2 = 16.11*), education (χ2 = 32.625**) and fathers‘ occupation (χ2 = 13.9218*). Age (χ2 = 12.042*), education (χ2 = 20.784*) was significantly associated with reaction about menstruation of the respondents. It was found that age (χ2 = 19.159*), education (χ2 = 21.78*) and caste (χ2 = 29.751**) was significantly associated with awareness about menarche before its onset. Age education of the respondents and education of mother was positively coorelated with menstrual hygienic practices. It can be concluded that the proper menstrual hygiene and correct perception can protect the women from suffering.
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